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Queen Elizabeth II has missed the state opening of parliament for the first time in 59 years, the customary speech laying out the government’s plan for new laws and actions given by her son instead.

The suspected terrorist accused of murdering Sir David Amess told a court that he killed the Tory MP for voting for air strikes in Syria.

(AP) — British lawmaker Sir David Amess was “assassinated” while meeting constituents last year by a “fanatical, radicalised Islamist terrorist,” a court heard Monday as the accused killer went on trial.

The National Museum Wales has declared that the use of steam trains is “rooted in colonialism and racism”.

Despite being found to be a “serial bully” and “liar” in a Parliamentary investigation, former House of Commons speaker John Bercow has managed to keep his honorary university positions and accolades.

A Police and Crime Commissioner has been officially reprimanded on Tuesday after speaking out about transgender rapists.

Britain’s government is preparing to incinerate $11.4 billion of PPE after it was discovered large amounts are defective.

Britain’s Conservative Party government has indicated that they will not take action to prevent the European Union from interfering with Northern Ireland while the Ukraine crisis rages on.

Ukraine’s parliament addressed the tension with Russia Wednesday by voting to allow citizens to carry guns. 

Italian lawmakers over the age of 50 require a coronavirus health pass in order to enter the country’s parliament, with some comparing the rules to living under the former Fascist regime.

The Canadian parliament in Ottawa cancelled its Friday sitting as police action in the area began against the Freedom Convoy.

Far-left Canadian Prime Minister Justin Trudeau faced another round of heckling and widespread laughter in Parliament on Tuesday, prompting audible cackling at his use of the term “responsible leadership” after invoking the never-before-used Emergencies Act against anti-mandate protesters this week.

The Conservative Party has fallen ten points behind the left-wing Labour Party in the latest opinion poll.

The British Prime Minister Boris Johnson has sacked a Conservative MP following her vote to cut VAT on energy bills.

A fistfight broke out in the Jordanian parliament on Tuesday during a debate over amending the national constitution to strengthen equal rights for women.

The Speaker of the House of Commons is taking seriously reports of widespread drugs abuse amid traces of cocaine being found in several lavatories in Parliament, saying he will raise the allegations with Scotland Yard.

Anti-Brexit Lib Dems crashed to fifth place and upstart Rejoin EU scraped together just 151 votes in Thursday’s special election.

Armed police guarding the Parliamentary estate have detained a man who breached security to enter the grounds of the Palace of Westminster.

Leftist MP Claudia Webbe was let off with a suspended sentence by what she had condemned as a “white court” after being convicted of harassment, including making an acid threat.

Owen Paterson MP has resigned after a trumped-up scandal in which he was accused of bringing parliament into disrepute.

If you want to understand why Britain’s backbench MPs have been so thoroughly useless at holding the government to account, look no further than the appalling case of Owen Paterson.

Mask-wearing has once again become mandatory in Britain’s House of Commons – for everyone except Members of Parliament.

A British lawmaker claimed that Christ’s death on the cross was “assisted” by a “kindly centurion” during a debate on “assisted dying” — as euthanasia is now euphemistically known — in the House of Lords. 

The act gives sweeping powers under the pretext that Britain is experiencing a crisis so catastrophic it justifies government by fiat.

Downing Street has warned of a “challenging” Winter ahead, suggesting that restrictions in reserve such as domestic vaccine passports could be imposed if the number of cases gets too high. While Professor Neil Ferguson has said that a Plan B may need to be implemented if Covid cases increase.

Queen Elizabeth II has agreed to grant the Essex seaside town of Southend city status in honour of Sir David Amess, the Conservative MP who was fatally stabbed while speaking to constituents on Friday.

Two drug dealers were arrested and 17 narcotics offences took place at the Palace of Westminster in the 12 months to March 2021, according to a freedom of information request.

Libya’s eastern “parliament” – essentially a rival government based in Tobruk, with its own Libyan National Army (LNA) headed by warlord Khalifa Haftar – voted on Tuesday to withdraw its confidence from the “unity government” in Tripoli.

Conservative candidates in Canada’s upcoming parliamentary election polled higher than expected over the weekend to show a slight lead over the liberal candidates, just weeks before the September 20 vote, CTV News reported Saturday.

Boris Johnson will recall parliament in order to debate Afghanistan, which has been described as the biggest blunder “since Suez”.

Three octogenarian members of the House of Lords face being banned from its facilities after refusing to sumbit to unconcious bias training.

Dozens of Conservative MPs rebelled and voted against extending restrictions — but not enough to stop the measures being passed, with 491 MPs backing the plans.

Pakistan’s parliament erupted in chaos on Tuesday after an opposition leader launched an incendiary speech criticizing recent budget proposals by Pakistan Prime Minister Imran Khan, Pakistan’s Dawn newspaper reported on Wednesday.

MP Rob Roberts has been suspended from the Conservative Party and faces a suspension from the House of Commons after an internal complaints panel ruled he had sexually harassed a male staff member, at one point telling him to be “less alluring” because the MP found the subordinate attractive. Roberts had also asked a 21-year-old female intern if she wanted to “fool around” with him.

Queen Elizabeth II has set out a British legislative programme including voter ID, Brexit free ports, and a host of climate change regulations at the socially-distanced State Opening of Parliament — her first major public engagement since the death of her husband of over seven decades.

British MPs approved a motion in the House of Commons on Thursday to declare that genocide is taking place against the Muslim Uyghurs and others in the Xinjiang region of China, representing a landmark parliamentary stance on the issue.